Huntington’s disease is a hereditary disease of the human nervous system that causes the death of nerve cells in the brain as a result of an imbalance in the genes of the infected person, causing the body’s inability to control its movements, becoming involuntary, becoming dancing, unable to control walking, swallowing, Remember who knows them from his family and relatives. Huntington’s disease or disease is defined by the abbreviation HD. This disease is generally considered a rare and uncommon disease. The incidence of infection by a parent with these genes is 50%. The effects of this disease are faster and stronger if transmitted from one generation to another.
Symptoms of the disease are not clear in most cases except in the middle age of those who have the gene of the disease in the period of the forties or fifties of the age of the person, and there are some other cases begin symptoms in the twenties of age and symptoms more difficult and more severe. His first symptoms include an imbalance in the patient’s movement and inability to control it so that it does not look normal and floats things and inadvertently signs them. These moves range in the limbs and then move to all parts of the body. And then start other symptoms such as inability to control the patient to walk or even to speak normally and have difficulties swallowing.
Later, some patients may become ill with a loss of memory or psychosis, such as inability to recognize those around them, and forgetfulness here gradually until it reaches full oblivion. In some other cases, the patient is able to retain his ability to respond to and interact with the effects. The patient is also in a state of frenzy and becomes moody and difficult to print and his actions are anti-social, and all this as part of the effects on nerve cells of the brain. Genes can be examined to see if the person has the disease or not. There is no cure for this disease, but drugs are available to relieve some of its effects but do not affect the disease or progress. And the average period that may live after the patient began to form symptoms of nearly fifteen years to about twenty years, and God knows best, the causes of death is the incidence of pneumonia or suffocation and weakness of the heart muscle as a result of weak muscles of the body and the inability of the patient to control his movements and control his muscles.